Breaking news:Top 5 early predictions for the 2025 F1 season …. read more
Breaking news:Top 5 early predictions for the 2025 F1 season …. read more
We’re officially into the 2025 F1 season now, and even though it has just been weeks since the last season ended, the anticipation is already wild when it comes to the next year.
We’re officially into the 2025 F1 season now, and even though it has just been weeks since the last season ended, the anticipation is already wild when it comes to the next year.
We ended the 2024 F1 season with seven different multiple race winners. We had 10 drivers who finished on the podium, and we went through phases where it was anybody’s guess who would win the race in the upcoming weekend.
When you go through a season like that, expectations are high, and so is the anticipation. While we would do a more educated official prediction for the 2025 F1 season after the pre-season test, here’s us shooting our shot in the dark and giving some very bold predictions for the upcoming season.
5 Haas finishes the season 5th in the championship
The 2024 F1 season was brilliant for Haas. The team showed a more rejuvenated side to it and an approach that was more tilted towards getting strong results. This is precisely what led to the team making significant improvements compared to 2023, where it was dead last.
Heading into the 2025 F1 season is all about building on momentum. If we look at the lineup, it’s a step up from what we had in 2024. While the Nico Hulkenberg-Kevin Magnussen pairing delivered good results, it still leaned heavily towards the German delivering most of the time.
For 2025, there would be Esteban Ocon and Ollie Bearman, a lineup where both drivers could deliver the results that the team needs. Such a lineup tends to be more balanced, and if the young Ferrari prodigy delivers on the potential, then the team is in an even better position.
With teams like RB, Alpine, Williams, and Sauber facing a struggle of one sort or the other, and Aston Martin more than likely ditching the 2025 F1 season in an attempt to make the jump in 2026, Haas seems best placed to capitalize on a strong 2024. We’re backing the American team to build on the platform and deliver the goods
#4 We will have at least four different title contenders until summer break
This is more of a hope than anything else at this stage, as the 2024 F1 season ended with the top 4 teams very close to each other in terms of performance. It is quite possible that one of the teams tries something very radical and hence drops down in terms of performance or conversely takes a major step and leaves everyone behind.
However, with the kind of stable regulations that we have, it’s going to be very hard to accomplish such a thing. We’re backing the top 4 teams to be within touching distance of each other, and when that happens, expect at least one driver from each team to be within contention of the title until the summer break.
#3 Lewis Hamilton comprehensively loses to Charles Leclerc at Ferrari
Many appear to have written off Lewis Hamilton’s somewhat off-color 2024 F1 season as something that was a result of the driver just biding his time with Mercedes. There’s, however, a bigger reality to it. A driver like Lewis doesn’t want to lose. It’s not in his DNA to be second best to anyone.
The fact that he was trying and still failing to get on top of a car that was built around him and by his input should be a concern. It also showed that the driver was not entirely comfortable once the car was not in the sweet spot. At Ferrari, he’s going into an alien environment where the car has been built with inputs from Charles Leclerc.
In terms of potential and capability, Leclerc is just as big a challenge as George Russell was at Mercedes. It won’t come as a surprise if Lewis is competitive against Leclerc. Having said that, it won’t come as a surprise either if the youngster stamps his authority on his teammate and replicates the performance that Russell did in 2024.
2 Kimi Antonelli wins a race this season
One debut that everyone is keeping an eye on is that of Kimi Antonelli. The young Italian teenager is someone who has been rated very highly by everyone involved. Much has been said about the manner in which Toto Wolff sees him as the next Max Verstappen.
Well, from what we’ve seen until now, the talent and the pace are there, although the polished nature is still not there yet.
For his rookie season, it’s going to be very hard to predict how well he does. With that being said, there are going to be moments of pure gold dust from the young Italian, and if the Mercedes challenger lives up to the competitiveness it had last year, there would be at least one such weekend out of 24 where Antonelli just nails everything and wins the race.
#1 Max Verstappen wins the 2025 F1 title
Finally, yes, we’re predicting Max Verstappen as the driver who would be standing tall at the end of the 24 races as a five-time world champion. The season is not going to be easy in any way, and as we’ve mentioned earlier, there’s going to be a lot of battles between different teams on different tracks.
In the end, though, even though we do not expect Red Bull to have an outright fastest car this season, we expect the team’s strategic acumen and the ability to maximize the results every weekend to help propel Max Verstappen once again to the top.
Stay tuned for more updates……
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